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Aug

2017

WHAT MAKES RED ALGAE SO DIFFERENT AND WHY SHOULD WE CARE?

By Jessamy Barker

The red algae called Porphyra and its ancestors have thrived for millions of years in the harsh habitat of the intertidal zone—exposed to fluctuating temperatures, high UV radiation, severe salt ...

Aug

2017

Incomplete drought recovery may be the new normal

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC — The amount of time it takes for an ecosystem to recover from a drought is an important measure of a drought’s severity. During the 20th century, the total area of land affected by ...

Jul

2017

Projected precipitation increases are bad news for water quality

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC — If climate change is not curbed, increased precipitation could substantially overload U.S. waterways with excess nitrogen, according to a new study from Carnegie’s Eva Sinha and Anna ...

Jul

2017

Could “cocktail geoengineering” save the climate?

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC — Geoengineering is a catch-all term that refers to various theoretical ideas for altering Earth’s energy balance to combat climate change. New research from an international team of ...

Jul

2017

NOAA and partners predict significant summer harmful algal bloom for western Lake Erie

By Carnegie HQ

New satellite data will mean more accurate and detailed Lake Erie Harmful Algal Bloom Forecast System Washington, DC— NOAA and its research partners, including Carnegie's Anna Michalak and Jeff Ho, ...

Jul

2017

Bornean orangutans’ canopy movements flag conservation targets

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC — Bornean orangutans living in forests impacted by human commerce seek areas of denser canopy enclosure, taller trees, and sections with trees of uniform height, according to new ...

Jun

2017

Carnegie Science Global Ecology collaborator wins Kyoto Prize

By Carnegie HQ

The 2017 Kyoto Prize in the Basic Sciences has been awarded to Graham Farquhar, a distinguished professor at The Australian National University and a long-time collaborator of Carnegie scientists in ...

Jun

2017

“Full toolbox” needed to solve the climate change problem

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC —Solving the climate change problem means transitioning to an energy system that emits little or no greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. According to new work from a team of experts ...

Jun

2017

Carnegie’s Cesar-Cuevas Velazquez Announced Pew Latin American Fellow

By Carnegie HQ

Pew announced the 2017 classes of biomedical scholars, Latin American fellows, and Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research today. Cesar-Cuevas Velazquez of the Department of Plant Biology Dinneny ...

Jun

2017

Ken Caldeira, Carnegie climate scientist, about pulling out of the Paris climate agreement

By Carnegie HQ

“It is times like this, when public funding for important science is buffeted by the gale-force winds of political controversy, that I feel extremely fortunate to be a scientist at the Carnegie ...

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